VP, Senior Transit and Rail Program Manager Details

VP, Senior Transit and Rail Program Manager

Jacobs - Fort Lauderdale, FL

Employment Type : Full-Time

Our People & Places Solutions business – reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do – the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology – we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

Your Impact:

What if you could join one of the industry’s leading providers of comprehensive transportation services? Be a part of our growth and help us reinvent tomorrow. Drawing on more than 50 years of transportation experience, we support our clients at every phase of project development – from planning and permitting through design and construction – and support complex, intermodal projects, and logistics. Within the rail market, our engineers and planners are experts at delivering projects in overly complex and dynamic operating environments. Whether we are moving people or products, our rail and intermodal team is connecting people and places all over the US and the globe. We offer expertise across all planning, environmental, engineering, safety, construction management, and specialty rail and intermodal disciplines. We are seeking individuals to join a dynamic and experienced team.

As Vice President, Senior Transit and Rail Program Manager at Jacobs you will provide excellent project delivery and client service by leading, planning and delivering major capital improvements in the transportation/transit market, grow our client base and business opportunities, manage quality, and perform in a team environment. In this role, you will support our growing transportation/transit practice. Such projects include, but are not limited to project planning, funding and capital plan development, program scheduling, and design coordination.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop client business opportunities and support project proposal teams.
• Contribute to the development of a Florida, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Transportation Market Strategy that delivers leading-edge technology solutions for our clients while also actively diversifying and expanding our client base.
• Use advanced techniques to modify and extend engineering theories, precepts, and practices.
• Plan and conduct work requiring evaluation, selection and substantial adaptation/ modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Assist in oversight of third-party contracts for the planning, design, maintenance, and operations of rail & transit systems.
• Resolve a variety of our client’s toughest complex problems (i.e., conflicting stakeholder interests, schedule constraints, and funding needs) on multi-faceted projects.
• Lead and/or provide guidance for the development of scopes/approaches of projects and programs, taking into consideration client needs, company strategy, resource requirement, financial performance, and alternative approaches.
• Assist teams in development of scopes, estimates, schedules, and negotiate fees with clients and sub-consultants.
• Review plans and technical specifications, contract documents, and estimates for infrastructure and rolling stock.
• Serve a senior QC reviewer for technical projects across the company
• Lead, coordinate and review the work of less experienced planners, scientists, engineers and/or technical support personnel assigned to the project.

Additionally, the candidate will:

• Actively participate in peer review of proposed innovations
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry innovations and development
• Represent Jacobs at conferences through presentation of papers
• Use relationship with clients to identify upcoming work (on and off the US. mainland).

Here’s What You’ll Need:

• Four-year degree in Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 20 years of progressive experience on rail and transit projects
• Florida Professional Engineering Licensed

At Jacobs, we are partnering across the globe to create the best project outcomes by maximizing the design, digital technology, and support capabilities of our Global Integrated Delivery (GID) teammates. By joining Jacobs, you will commit to supporting and engaging with these teams, as we work to build a company like no other.

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At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $13 billion in revenue and a talent force of more than 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.